IMITATE THEIR FAITH/MIRIAM - Miriam the Rescuer

 So Miriam waited. In time, she caught sight of a movement. A group of women approached.  As they  were no ordinary Egyptians.  It was Pharoah's daughter and her female attendants, coming to bathe in the Nile.  Perhaps's Miriam's heart sank. Could she even dare to hope that Pharoah's own daugther could violate the king's order and choose to protect this Hebrew baby?  Miriam surely prayed intensely in those moments. 

It was Pharaoh's daughter who first caught sight of the basked in the reeds. She sent her slave girl to bring it to her.  The account then says of the princess: "When she opened it, she saw the child, and the boy was crying."  She quickly surmised what had happened: Some  Hebrew mother was attemptin to spare her child's life. but compassion for that beautiful baby stirred the heart of Pharaoh's daughter.  (Exodus 2:5, 6) Alert Miriam surely read the expression on the woman's face. The child knew that her moment had come, the time to put her faith in Jehovah into action.  Mustering her courage, she approached the royal party. 

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